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FY 2012 Grant Awards: State Listings

Art Works I | Challenge America Fast-Track Grants | Literature Fellowships (Prose)

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

MICHIGAN

Ann Arbor Film Festival, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival. At the forthcoming festival, many genres will be presented including documentaries, animated films, cinéma vérité, narrative, and personal story cinema.

ArtServe Michigan, Inc.
Wixom, MI
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support Lawyers for the Creative Economy (LCE), an initiative to establish a statewide network of attorneys committed to delivering free to low-fee legal resources to artists, creative practitioners, businesses, and nonprofit organizations. LCE will provide professional development seminars and a website to help artists and other creative entrepreneurs develop essential knowledge about creativity-related areas of law.

Chamber Music Society of Detroit
Farmington Hills, MI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an ensemble residency program. The Shanghai Quartet and the Windscape woodwind ensemble will present concerts, school performances, lecture-demonstrations, and master classes for elementary through high school students and at community organizations.

Detroit International Jazz Festival Foundation
Detroit, MI
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 33rd annual Detroit International Jazz Festival Delta to Detroit. Free performances will be offered by Willie Nelson, Buddy Guy, Wynton Marsalis, Bettye LaVette, Harry Connick Jr., Lyle Lovett, artist-in-residence Terence Blanchard and others.

Digital Arts, Film & Television (aka DAFT)
Royal Oak, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 2012 Michigan Student Film & Video Festival and related programming. The festival is held at the Detroit Institute of Arts in April and presents work by K-12 students; the best of the festival is then presented at the Michigan Youth Arts Festival in May.

Dzanc Books
Westland, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of books of fiction. Scheduled authors include Eugene Cross, Matt Dojny, Josh Russell, George Singleton, and Jennifer Spiegel.

Fontana Chamber Arts
Kalamazoo, MI
$12,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Summer Music Festival featuring chamber music, new music, and jazz presentations with related educational activities. Artists will include the Hagen Quartet, Alarm Will Sound chamber ensemble, pianist Jeffrey Kahane with members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Bad Plus jazz trio, Enso String Quartet, early music specialist Jordi Savall, the International Contemporary Ensemble, the Hilliard Ensemble with saxophonist Jan Gabarek, and Imani Winds.

Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival
Southfield, MI
$13,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Shouse Institute, a professional training program for chamber ensembles. Designed to bridge the gap between graduate school and a professional performing career, the program involves emerging, pre-professional ensembles participating in coaching sessions, master classes, and performances.

Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra
Petoskey, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a performance of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana featuring soprano Diane Penning, baritone Stephen Hartley, and tenor Sean Copenhaver. In addition to the soloists and orchestra, the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra Chorus, the Northern Michigan Chorale, and the Northern Michigan Youth Choir will also perform. Maestro Sidney Hazelwood and musicologist Dr. Robert Pattengale will lead a series of lecture-demonstrations about the masterpiece.

Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival (aka The Gilmore)
Kalamazoo, MI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Gilmore Keyboard Festival. More than 100 events are planned including concerts, master classes, lectures, premieres of new works by composers Fred Hersch and Brad Mehldau, and public educational programs.

Kerrytown Concert House, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
$12,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Edgefest 2012 Worldly Measures, a four-day music festival with free and ticketed events featuring ground-breaking improvisers and composers and their original music stemming from multi-cultural/ethnic roots. This music is reflective of the cultural complexity of America today.

Michigan Opera Theatre
Detroit, MI
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Ruggero Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci. The production will feature a wordless flashback scene not part of the original classic opera in which the back-story of how Canio first met his wife will be revealed, thus adding another layer of depth to the story and further dramatizing the dichotomy between comedy and tragedy that plays throughout the opera.

Michigan State University (Consortium)
East Lansing, MI
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts

To support the 2012 Great Lakes Folk Festival. In collaboration with the City of East Lansing, the festival will showcase the traditional music, dance, foodways, and other cultural expressions of the nation's Upper Midwest using an innovative approach, highlighting the cultural sustainability and adaptive reuse (recycling) inherent in traditional culture in conjunction with modern technology (a solar powered stage).

Northern Michigan University
Marquette, MI
$22,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Creating and Learning Art in Native Settings that will teach American Indian youth to revitalize Anishinaabe art forms, songs, and dances. Through a partnership with Northern Michigan University Center for Native American Studies and the Tribal Historic Preservation Office of the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, youth in Michigan's central and western Upper Peninsula will attend workshops and a summer camp to study traditional and emerging contemporary Anishinaabe arts and create work for public exhibitions and performances.

Old Town Business & Art Development Association
Lansing, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Lansing JazzFest, which includes concerts, jam sessions, and educational workshops. Main stage performers, which have previously included Johnny O'Neal and Stanley Jordan, will perform at least one world-premiere piece.

Percy, Jennifer
Interlochen, MI
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Sphinx Organization, Inc.
Detroit, MI
$55,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Sphinx Symphony Residency Project. The Sphinx Organization collaborates with national organizations to attract and target talented high school and college-level students of color from across the nation.

St. Clair County Community College
Port Huron, MI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Patterns Visiting Artists Forum featuring author Jaimy Gordon and poet John Rybicki. In addition to public workshops and readings, the artists will provide written analyses of student work.


Number of Grants: 18          Total Amount: $370,000

 
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